Pierre DeBois’s Biography

Pierre DeBois is the founder of Zimana, an analytics consultancy that help organizations achieve profitability improvements in marketing, Web development, and within their business operations. Zimana has provided services for businesses from many industries. Zimana’s blog is an AllTop analytics blog, while its @zimanaanalytics was named among the top 100 Twitter accounts for big data discussion according to the Big Data Republic/PeerIndex #BigData100.

Pierre has provided digital marketing and analytic workshops. He has conducted workshops for the City of Chicago Treasurer’s Office as part of the 2014 Small Business Expo. He has also conducted several workshops; General Assembly in Chicago; the Yceeya Network in New York City; several for Blue1647, a business incubator in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago; and at the DX Summit, a marketing conference hosted by CMS Wire since 2015.

In 2017 Pierre has presented analytics workshops at Interop ITX and Content Marketing World. In 2018 he presented at several developer conferences - Indy.Code, Nebraska.Code, and OSCON

Pierre is also an analytics tech and business intelligence writer. He has contributed articles to CMS Wire, All Analytics, and DMNews. He is also an associate editor of business book reviews for Small Business Trends, as well as being a technical editor for two Pearson/Que publications.

Pierre has been featured in the Chicago Sun Times, and is a presenter as part of the Google Get Your Business Online program.

Pierre is Prairie View A & M University graduate (mechanical engineering) and a Georgia Tech graduated (MBA). He is a native of Gary, Indiana, serving small businesses and organizations throughout the United States.